The mark of a great baseball hitter is knowing which pitches to swing at and which pitches to let go by. The same is likely true for political commentary. I could comment on the latest round of mass shootings, but I think I would just talk in circles. It’s hard to say the same thing […]

Up until about twenty years ago, there were two main reasons for running for president. Either you really wanted to be president and thought you had a good chance or you thought you could use the pulpit to advance some issues before you were mercifully knocked out of the race. With the advent of Fox […]

Echo chambers can be a good thing sometimes. Many people consider the Hurricane to be an echo chamber. Unfortunately, most of the voices have left the cave, so I don’t know how accurate that would be these days. However, the nature of the echo chamber was never more in full force than the various sites […]

Primary Colors is still one of the more poignant political movies of our generation. The movie was based on a novel that was an awfully thin veiled scribe on the Bill Clinton campaign. It featured John Travolta as Jack Stanton, a southern governor making a run for the White House. Of course, Travolta looked the part […]

In Texas, it’s almost impossible for politicians to shock – Rick Perry is known for childish gunplay; Senator Dan Patrick brags about carrying a firearm in the Texas capitol. Innumerable Republicans relish abusing women’s, minorities’, seniors’, and poor peoples’ rights, and work tirelessly to beat Mississippi to the bottom in most all societal measures. One of […]

PBS has a terrific film (as they usually do) on John Fitzgerald Kennedy. They’ve already released the first of the two part series. The first film covers his life before he became president. I managed to go through the two hour presentation thanks to my PBS app on my Apple TV (shameless plug). My standards […]

As of November 8th, 2013, there have been 58,846 American soldiers killed or wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn, and Operation Enduring Freedom since March 19, 2013. How often do you hear that statistic? The financial cost of the warS to date is approximately $4-6 trillion – the equivalent […]

Last night saw the effective end to the Astrodome. The county judges threw out a plan that was several years old and unimaginative in the hopes of fooling the local citizens that they cared about saving the dome. Citizens saw through this and vetoed the measure. Now, the future of the dome is probably officially […]

It was a hard day’s night on Tuesday as the Eric Dick (pictured above standing next to other well-known dicks) bid for Mayor of Houston fell short. Unable to provide any stiff competition, Dick limped across the finish line in third place behind Annise Parker and Ben Hall, coming in with an impotent 10% […]